Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024 | Xbox Series S/X

Buy Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024 on Xbox Series S/X

Travel the world in our largest fleet of aircraft and watch the simulation reach new heights as you take your place in the world of aviation in Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024. The Standard Edition includes over 65 aircraft and 150 hand-built airports.

Give meaning to your flights

- Launch your aviation career anywhere in the world. Gain experience, build your reputation and pass certifications to access authentic aviation activities such as medical evacuation, remote cargo operations, aerial firefighting, search and rescue and much more, all the way to becoming an airline transport pilot. Embark on a real aerial adventure and fly an unlimited number of missions around the world.
- Compete against other pilots in the all-new Challenge League mode, or hone your skills in dozens of activities ranging from thrilling rally races to precision landings, low-altitude challenges and much more. Take part in the iconic Red Bull air races and the legendary Reno air races, including the new Roswell courses.
- Become a world photographer and travel across our beautiful planet to capture awe-inspiring natural vistas, visit famous landmarks and record these adventures in pictures in your travel diary. Unique photo challenges test your creativity and piloting skills as you strive to capture the perfect moment.

Advanced simulation

- The enhanced physics system includes over 10,000 rigid body surfaces to simulate any aircraft shape. Soft-body physics supports fabrics, ropes, balloons and more. Improved ground and water management further enhance realism.
- New, highly accurate aircraft systems, including electrical, pneumatic, hydraulic and fuel systems, payload and passenger systems, as well as avionics systems such as the Universal UNS-1 FMS and Honeywell's Primus Epic 2. Pre-flight inspections and in-flight checks enhance immersion.
- Plan your flights with a revolutionary flight planner supporting IFR and VFR chart layers, IFR charts, route planning, fuel and payload planning, vertical profile planning and ETOPS planning. The flight planner also provides airport information, including weather and messages to airmen, and is available natively in the simulator, on mobile devices or web browsers for flight planning outside the simulator.

Explore a visually stunning digital copy of our world

- Explore our most detailed recreation of planet Earth to date. Enhanced digital elevation maps, over 500 TIN (Triangulated Irregular Network) cities and more than 100,000 square kilometres of field photogrammetry have gone into this visually stunning digital copy. More than 150 airports, 2,000 glider airfields, 10,000 heliports, 2,000 points of interest and 900 oil platforms have been painstakingly created by hand, while a procedural system generates the 40,000 airports, 80,000 heliports, 1.5 billion buildings and nearly 3,000 billion trees on our planet.
- Land anywhere and, for the first time in Microsoft Flight Simulator, leave your plane to explore 27 highly detailed biomes with hundreds of species of vegetation, dynamically created details including grass, rocks and flowers, all influenced by the changing seasons. The all-new photometric lighting system renders the world more accurately than ever before, and enhanced meteorological aspects such as new cloud types, auroras and other weather phenomena produce new and captivating atmospheric experiences.
- The world comes alive with a huge variety of land animals in their natural habitats and herds roaming free across the planet. Oceans and waterways teem with bustling global shipping traffic, from large tankers and cargo ships to trawlers, tugs and more. A richly diverse, geographically accurate representation of humanity brings the world's airports, planes and passenger cabins to life. Enhanced real-life air traffic fills the skies and airport tarmacs with hundreds of faithfully-represented aircraft models and dozens of officially-licensed models.